Thanks everyone for the advice -- I went back to kernel-BOOT-2.4.18-3 in my install tree and it (seems to have) worked fine. I don't think it's a problem that my install now has an old kernel-BOOT package... in fact, since the point of a separate kernel-BOOT package is surely to keep install images to a workable size, isn't there an argument that the more recent kernel-BOOT RPMs are broken? Next question... I'd like to be able to maintain an 8.0 install setup on a 7.3 machine. The bit of this that I thought would be most tricky (building the install images) seems to work -- I run buildinstall and I can do a network install off the result! But pkgorder is failing, due to the comps format having changed, so I suspect a CD install might not work so well, and splitdistro also needs pkgorder.txt. I think a simple tool for generating an (old style) pkgorder.txt from a comps.xml file would do the trick... I don't suppose such a thing exists? Danny.
